DAdalailambda·May 3, 2016
For an example of a language written in Go(besides Go), there's always https://github.com/ark-lang/ark
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ark
A compiled systems programming language written in Go using the LLVM framework
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| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2015 | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2015 | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Jul 2015 | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Sep 2015 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2015 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2015 | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2015 | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Feb 2016 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2016 | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2016 | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2016 | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesShow HN: A programming language I've been working on called Ark
15 points · Open discussionVery similar to Ark: www.github.com/ark-lang/ark. Except Ark has no GC, has tagged enums, ownership is enforced, and a few other smaller differences.
In C2 Lang design (2014) [pdf]Ark: a compiler implemented from scratch in Go
5 points · Open discussionArk is a systems programming language somewhere inbetween C and C++
1 points · Open discussionTheir compiler is written in Go.
See https://github.com/ark-lang/ark
In Ark – A modern systems programming languageArk: A systems programming language written in Go with an LLVM back end
2 points · Open discussionArk – A systems programming language written in Go with an LLVM back end
2 points · Open discussionJayfor: LLVM based programming language written in C
32 points · Open discussionShow HN: J4 – A programming language implemented in C
Hi. We're currently working on a programming language with a friend. This project is mostly for fun and so we can learn. We are looking for contributors to help make the language better, and also speed up the implementation. The language is still in it's early phases, which means that if you want to have a say, you can post an issue or join our IRC (all information is in the repository).
We're still looking for people to help out, developers to program the compiler, people interested in compiler design who want to think of new features/syntax/etc, writers, graphic designers, ... Also if you aren't the strongest C programmer, or have no background in compiler development, it's no worry - there are smaller, easier issues you can try to implement, and I'm sure there are still bugs to squish!
Here are some general features of the language (so
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me are implemented, some are just future guidelines):
* Automatic Garbage Collection
* Pointers, with the ARC memory model (Rust and ObjectiveC both support a form of this)
* Statically Linked
* Functions treated as Second Class Objects
* Simple OOP System (similar to Rust)
* Near to no type system
* Statically Typed (except for some cases, where types are inferred, i.e for loops).
We don't take this project too seriously, so neither should you. We're not trying to replace C, we're just doing something we enjoy doing. Here's a link to the repository: https://github.com/jayfor-lang/jayfor. I'm still pretty new to the field of compilers, in fact I wrote my first scripting language 2 - 3 years ago and my first compiler around a year ago. So any veteran compiler people who have any questions, I can't guarantee a [good] answer. Thanks for reading!